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Pete Seeger, songwriter and champion of folk music, dies at 94

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Pete Seeger, folk singer and activist, has died at 94

Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies in NY (The Associated Press) Buoyed by his characteristically soaring spirit, the surging crowd around him and a pair of canes, Pete Seeger walked through the...

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Pete Seeger dies at 94; balladeer was America's conscience

Pete Seeger was a teenager in the 1930s when he heard an Appalachian balladeer perform on an old-fashioned, five-string banjo and fell in love with the instrument, the timeless melodies and, most of...

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Pete Seeger Brought the World Closer Together

"To everything, there is a season," according to Pete Seeger's song, "Turn, Turn, Turn," taken from the Book of Ecclesiastes. "A time to be born, a time to die." Seeger died Monday at 94. In the spirit...

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FOLK LEGEND Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies at 94

NEW YORK — Buoyed by his characteristically soaring spirit, the surging crowd around him and a pair of canes, Pete Seeger walked through the streets of Manhattan leading an Occupy Movement protest in...

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Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies at 94

ALBANY, NEW YORK — Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk...

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Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies in New York at 94

NEW YORK (AP) — Buoyed by his characteristically soaring spirit, the surging crowd around him and a pair of canes, Pete Seeger walked through the streets of Manhattan leading an Occupy Movement protest...

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American folk singer and activist Pete Seeger dies at 94

(Reuters) - Pete Seeger, who helped create the modern American folk music movement and co-wrote some of its most enduring songs such as "If I Had a Hammer", died on Monday at the age of 94, U.S. media...

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Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies

NEW YORK Buoyed by his characteristically soaring spirit, the surging crowd around him and a pair of canes, Pete Seeger walked through the streets of Manhattan leading an Occupy Movement protest in...

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Gentle Leadership: Thank You Pete Seeger

How do you measure the weight of a human life? What really matters? That is the key question for all of us. What really matters? Pete Seeger is an example of what the words decent and dedicated look...

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At Selma and Around the World, Pete Seeger Brought Us Closer Together>

Pete Seeger with Martin Luther King, Charis Horton, Rosa Parks, and Ralph Abernathy at the Highlander Folk School, a Tennessee training center for activists, in 1957; Seeger (with wife Toshi) at the...

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Pete Seeger, Folk Legend, Dead at 94

Pete Seeger, a seminal figure in American music who kept folk music alive and influenced generations of musicians from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen, died Monday of natural causes in New York, his...

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Pete Seeger, Troubadour And Activist, Dies At 94

Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage,...

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Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies in NY

NEW YORK — Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music...

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Pete Seeger, folk singer and activist, dies at age 94

To Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, the singer/songwriter/activist who died Monday at the age of 94 was "the father of American folk music." But Seeger, who popularized “This Land Is Your Land” and “We...

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Pete Seeger: the road goes on for ever

You didn't have to listen to Pete Seeger's music to feel his effect on the popular music of the last 70 years. It was his influence that set the moral compass of many great singers and songwriters,...

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Pete Seeger taught America to sing, and think

To Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, the singer/songwriter/activist who died Monday at the age of 94, was "the father of American folk music." But Seeger, who popularized “This Land Is Your Land” and “We...

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US folk singer Pete Seeger dies at 94

Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger, "a living archive of America's music and conscience" who inspired the likes of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, has died at the age of 94, US media reported. With a...

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Pete Seeger: a Troubadour for Peace and Justice

Pete Seeger was my first hero. I cannot remember a time when I did not know who he was. I first listened to him on my parent’s 78s of the Almanac Singers singing “Talking Union” and “I Don’t Want Your...

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Pete Seeger obituary

US folk singer and songwriter whose radical politics made him a target of the anti-communist blacklist in the 1950s...

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A Month of Magnum Photographers on Instagram

Pete Seeger plays his banjo in Beacon, New York, 1965. Photograph by Bruce Davidson/Magnum. Seeger and his youngest daughter, Tinya Seeger, in September, 1958, at the Seegers’ log-cabin home in Beacon....

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Seeger's music and view of music continues to reverberate

AP FILE PHOTO This May 5, 2006, file photo shows Pete Seeger in Beacon, N.Y. Photos: Anyone who ever aspired to make music that was more than pretty noises – music that could change things – owes a...

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Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies in New York

ALBANY, N.Y.: Buoyed by his characteristically soaring spirit, the surging crowd around him and a pair of canes, Pete Seeger walked through the streets of Manhattan leading an Occupy Wall Street...

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Pete Seeger delivered the news for generations

Pete Seeger was a working-class advocate who delivered the news in songs that could be sung by everyone, in four-part harmony. "I'll sing out danger, I'll sing out warning," he sang, "I'll sing out...

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